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This panel is part of the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute's (BCLI) Current Issues Series of Urban Habitat. Plan Bay Area, approved in July 2013, moves the region's growth towards communities in the urban core within so called Priority Development Areas. These PDAs are typically developed communities throughout the Bay Area's 101 jurisdictions with existing and/or planned transportation and service infrastructure, but they are also existing communities where low-income people and communities of color are currently living. As Plan Bay Area shifts 70% of future growth into these existing PDA areas, significant resources will be poured into historically dis-invested areas such as East San Jose, most of San Francisco and Oakland, and various other urban core communities throughout the Bay Area. Who benefits from these investments? Will these resources support existing residents or displace them? Will regional planning create neighborhoods that disproportionately benefit newer, more affluent residents who will be lured by transit-rich, thriving urban communities? Includes slides from featured speakers: Vu-Bang Nguyen, Silicon Valley Community Foundation Jennifer Martinez, Peninsula Interfaith Action Dawn Phillips, Causa Justa::Just Cause
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”Focusing Development on Communities of Concern: Smart Growth and its Impact on
Gentrification and Displacement in the Bay Area” February 19, 2014
Our Approach • Policy Advocacy • Mobilizing and Educating Community Coalitions around Policy
• Training Advocates to become Decision-‐Makers
UH News Welcome to our new Executive Director:
Ellen Wu! Land Use Associate Director Hired:
Tony Roshan Samara Hiring: Transportation Justice Coordinator Shared office for rent @ Urban Habitat
The BCLI Model
Train
Place
Connect
Recruit
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The Fellowship
Deep and integrated equity knowledge Political skills Power structures and influences Commission procedures and best
practices
SKILLS KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK
Current Issues Series
• Network • Critically question and engage
• Share your perspective with our speakers • Inform your communities and your work
Vu-‐Bang Nguyen
Jennifer Martinez
Dawn Phillips
Urbanization
San Francisco
Oakland San Jose
Sacramento
Suburbanization
ABAG Priority Development Areas
Gentrifica+on is a profit driven race and class remake of urban, working class communi8es of color that have
suffered from a history of disinvestment and abandonment. This process is driven by private developers, landlords, businesses and corpora8ons and supported by the state,
through both policies that facilitate the process and funding in the form of public subsidies. Gentrifica8on happens in areas where commercial and residen8al land is cheap,
rela8ve to other areas in the city and region, and where the poten8al to turn a profit, either through re-‐purposing
exis8ng structures or building new ones is great.
Provided by Causa Justa :: Just Cause
Definition of Gentrification
Jennifer Mar8nez Co-‐Director,
Peninsula Interfaith Ac8on Network
Community Needs
& Values
State Policies
Economic Interests
Community Needs
& Values
State Policies
Economic Interests
Equity Residential (EQR) Properties
Facebook to Equity Residential (EQR) Properties
Organizing in East Palo Alto
Focusing Development on Communi+es of Concern: Smart Growth and its Impact on Gentrifica+on and Displacement in
the Bay Area
1. Local and regional planning have historically contributed to increasing race and class inequi8es (not resolving them)
2. Achieving equity for the future requires a new approach to community and regional development that addresses the historical challenges and puts those most impacted by development at the center of that work moving forward
3. Community organiza8ons play a cri8cal role in being able to support residents in visioning and planning for their neighborhoods
EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT REQUIRES COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS &
IMPACTED RESIDENTS
HISTORIC DISINVESTMENT
URBAN RENEWAL
In Oakland between 2000 – 2010
Downtown West Oakland North
Oakland East Oakland
1.5 Billion 78.5 Million 2.4 Million 14.8 Million
DEVELOPMENT OF DOWNTOWN VERSUS NEIGHBORHOODS
WE WANT WE GET
THE DISCONNECT
A NEW VISION FOR LOCAL & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• We are commiSed to a community driven planning process done in an inclusive manner—through community organizing, leadership training, focus groups and popular educa8on -‐-‐that ensures the par8cipa8on of those members of our community who are disenfranchised, marginalized, and not usually heard • Our planning process will address the economic, racial, and social inequali8es of the status quo
The Mission & San Francisco Anti-‐Displacement Coalition Planning
Principles
• Our planning process will strive to advance the capacity of the community to address planning and development issues far into the future • We strive for transparency in the planning and rezoning process and to ensure city and regional accountability • We will struggle to improve democracy in San Francisco by increasing the par8cipa8on of Mission District residents in the decision-‐making bodies
• We believe that all tenants have a right to safe, secure, and affordable places to live. We support strong public policies that protect those rights. • We believe that real estate specula8on destabilizes neighborhoods, communi8es and economies. We support regula8on and controls on such specula8on.
• We believe that the future of San Francisco as a culturally vibrant and crea8ve city depends on its capacity to protect tenants from displacement and neighborhoods from gentrifica8on • We are commiSed to building a democra8c, inclusive, and nonviolent movement for social change to advance these values, beliefs, and policies
”Focusing Development on Communities of Concern: Smart Growth and its Impact on
Gentrification and Displacement in the Bay Area” February 19, 2014
